egg colour query

[crunchytop]

I have 3 Japanese cortunix quail.2 female and 1 male.fed a diet of chick crumb/turkey feed/meal worms/finch seeds and daily fresh mix of greens, herbs ,fruit grated courgette etc.
The thing is they only lay eggs that are uniformly grey/bluey like this:

these aren't my corturnix but I found this pic online and the eggs are exactly the same colour as mine

I think of quail eggs like this:


any suggestions as to why this might be? It has been suggested it might just be the breed, but I have seen photos from other cortunix and they looked normal I.E white background/speckly.

 

[GrandmaBird]

The birds in the top photo are button quail not courtnix. Do you have a photo of your birds? You might have Chinese Blue Breasted Quail aka king quail aka buttons State side. lol

 

[dc3085]

It could be caused by several things. If i can see a picture of the eggs i can tell you for sure.

 

[crunchytop]

here is a couple pics of my birds:


quincy



quentin



the suspect egg looking a bit more buff then the usual grey/blue.not laying much at moment as daytimes shortning.
I took a vid but I will have to figure out how to upload it first.
hope these help

 

[DK newbie]

You have button quail, not coturnix. The picture of the hen isn't too good, she could be mistaken for a cot. But the roo is clearly a button and if the hen in the picture laid the egg, so is she

 

[crunchytop]

 

[crunchytop]

thank you so much everyone.you hit the quail on the head! they are Button quail bless there little button sox!
I'm so happy now I know there eggs are meant to look like this.So glad I joined your site, be chatting more very soon